People tend to use what they know, so procurement, engineering and design will be based on home-country products that are not American,' says Mr. Hicks, an American resident of Singapore.

大家喜欢使用自己所熟知的产品，因此采购、工程技术和设计都会用本国的，而这时候美国就只能靠边站了。

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"We're not reliant on carbon - or nuclear-based fuels to grow this packaging," says Oliver Campbell, Dell's director of procurement packaging. "It's self-energizing."

“我们不会依赖碳或核助能的燃料进行包装开发，”戴尔公司采购包装总监奥利弗·坎贝尔表示，“包装完全是自供能。”

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It's looking to "identify mature shoe scanning technology to support a future procurement which will eliminate the need for passengers to remove their shoes at the checkpoint," says Horowitz.

霍洛·维茨表示，他们在不断地寻找成熟的技术，使得乘客在安检时不再需要脱鞋。

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Brent Myers, Broadstar's vice president of global procurement, says Smith has saved the company 43% compared with domestically sourced parts, allowing Broadstar to hire 30 people in the last year.

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The Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) says procurement legislation requiring managers to select the lowest bidder can constrain the provision of good food.

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Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.

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